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dc.contributor.authorKershaw, Tristan
dc.contributor.authorSimm, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-31T16:28:50Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractWith the increasing threat of serious climate change, various governments are aiming to substantially reduce their carbon emissions. In the UK all new schools and domestic buildings are required to be ‘zero-carbon’ from 2016. Schools are seen as community centres of activity and learning by local authorities, as such there is an emphasis to make schools exemplar buildings within the community and demonstrate best practice with regards to low and zero-carbon design. This paper focuses on what are the pertinent drivers and obstacles to low carbon school design based upon literature review and a survey of experts in the field. We find that more barriers are identified than drivers for low carbon design, with the greatest drivers being legislation, environmental concerns and running costs. The greatest barriers were identified as increased equipment in modern schools, complexity of building systems and the perceived extra cost of low carbon design and technologies. It is suggested that most barriers could be overcome by improving communication between the design team, client and end users, and that truly integrated design teams are the key to mainstream low carbon school design.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipDevon County Council (as part of the Montgomery School project)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 11 pp. 40 - 47en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.scs.2013.11.006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/14471
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherElsevieren_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2013.11.006en_GB
dc.subjectLow carbonen_GB
dc.subjectDesignen_GB
dc.subjectBarriersen_GB
dc.titleThoughts of a design team: Barriers to low carbon school designen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2014-01-31T16:28:50Z
dc.identifier.issn2210-6707
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2014 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Sustainable Cities and Society. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Sustainable Cities and Society Vol. 11 (2014), DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2013.11.006en_GB
dc.identifier.journalSustainable Cities and Societyen_GB


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